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Monthly Archives: January 2008

What is it with the adverts?

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Some members might have noticed that the blog, forum and Wiki all now have Google Adsense advertisements. Does this mean that the Belgrade FVC is now a profit making commercial enterprise? Definitely not.
My reasoning is that the adverts are fairly unobtrusive and discrete, but provide a small but useful income to cover the [...]

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Fish&Bar - a superb new Fish Bar

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Fish&Bar is an amazing new restaurant and delicatessen situated at the intersection Brace Jugovica and Simina streets in Dorcol (where Sinatra used to be). It server amazing fish, salads and other seafood dishes (including my beloved picked anchovies).

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Wok To Walk comes to Belgrade

Thursday, January 31, 2008

A “Wok to Walk” franchise has opened on Nusiceva street 3a  in Belgrade (near McDonalds on Terazije) and offers cheap and delicious Chinese fast food. Here is the flyer:
 

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The Leadership lessons from Emperor Shaka Zulu the Great

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

I found this book in a charity bookshop in Ealing. I bought the book because I liked the cheesy cover and every South African has a fascination with Shaka Zulu.
I was surprised to find myself enjoying the little book, and I finished it in one sitting on the plane to Belgrade from London.
The [...]

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Favourite Business Shoes: Loaks

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Loak 1303

Loak Artemis

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Favourite Business Shoes: Loaks

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Loak 1303

Loak Artemis

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Solange Karsh

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Wife of master portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh, she had a magnificent physique and was his only nude model.

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links for 2008-01-29

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

SSN Astute Class - British Attack Submarine
Superb new British subs
(tags: military militaria navy naval submarines)

Depression and Yeast
Depression casts a shadow over the lives of 19 million Americans, two-thirds of them women. The precise cause, in many cases, remains a mystery. Genetics, brain chemistry gone bonkers, even environmental depredation have all been mentioned, and documented
(tags: health [...]

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Physiognomy and success

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Thin Slicing at work in the corporate world as the Economist declares “What the boss looks like determines how he performs”.
This may sound like voodoo. Psychologists spent much of the 20th century denigrating the work of 19th-century physiognomists and phrenologists who thought the shapes of faces and skulls carry information about personality. However, recent work [...]

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Physiognomy and success

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Thin Slicing at work in the corporate world as the Economist declares “What the boss looks like determines how he performs”.
This may sound like voodoo. Psychologists spent much of the 20th century denigrating the work of 19th-century physiognomists and phrenologists who thought the shapes of faces and skulls carry information about personality. However, recent [...]

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